{"id":1759,"date":"2006-11-16T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T21:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:12:17","slug":"children-shouldn%e2%80%99t-play-with-dead-things-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1759","title":{"rendered":"Children Shouldn&#8217;t Play With Dead Things (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Get out of the grave, Alan. Get out of the grave and let an artist show you how to call a curse down on Satan!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Poster.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA theater director (Alan Ormsby) brings his actors to a remote island to participate in a mock necromancy ritual &#8212; but the group soon finds itself in mortal danger as zombies rise from their graves.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Actors and Actresses<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Zombies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn his inimitable, no-holds-barred style, Peary perfectly describes this cult film by writer\/director Bob Clark as a &#8220;cheap, ugly, non-frightening, non-funny horror comedy with odious characters,&#8221; made by &#8220;amateurs who think any completed horror film will make money.&#8221; I agree. It&#8217;s beyond amazing to me that the director of one of my all-time favorite comedies &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38106\"><em>A Christmas Story<\/em> (1983)<\/a> &#8212; also helmed this &#8220;excuse for a film,&#8221; full of unappealing protagonists, bad acting, laughable make-up, and a painfully unfunny premise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-1024x616.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-64127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-1024x616.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-128x77.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2-449x270.png 449w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Children-Shouldnt-Play-Still2.png 1507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><br \/>\nNone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo. While it&#8217;s apparently somewhat of a cult favorite, it&#8217;s too awful to recommend. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0068370\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badmovies.org\/movies\/childdead\/index.html\">Bad Movies Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Get out of the grave, Alan. Get out of the grave and let an artist show you how to call a curse down on Satan!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64128,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/64128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}